ghostly
pronunciation
How to pronounce ghostly in British English:
UK [ˈgəʊstli]
How to pronounce ghostly in American English:
US [ˈgoʊstli]
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- Adjective:
- like or being a phantom
Word Origin
- ghostly (adj.)
- Old English gastlic "spiritual, holy, not of the flesh; clerical;" also "supernatural, spectral, pertaining to or characteristic of a ghost;" see ghost + -ly (1). Related: Ghostliness.
Example
- 1. Or their ghostly purpose , their pining vengeance ?
- 2. Ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves .
- 3. A rotting branch protruded from the swamp like a ghostly arm .
- 4. A ghostly lady haunts the stairway looking for her children .
- 5. He stumbled in the dark and ran into two ghostly characters .